From: nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com   
      
        On November 2, 1920, in a makeshift shack in East Pittsburgh,   
        six men sat up all night reporting the Presidential election   
        returns on KDKA, the first licensed broadcasting station in   
        America.   
      
        And Broadcasting was born.   
      
        Since then it's grown at an astonishing rate. ...   
      
        Countries halfway around the globe are now no further away than   
        your nearest radio or TV set. You've had ringside seats at   
        Olympic games, inaugurations and coronations. You've even been to   
        the moon.   
      
   And so began a full-page advertisement by Group W in the November 1970   
   issue of Broadcasting magazine. The entire issue recognized the   
   historic significance of the date: the fiftieth anniversary of the   
   first broadcast, on November 2, 1920, on KDKA, the first licensed   
   broadcast station in America.   
      
   The article continues:   
      
        But broadcasting brings you more that athletes and   
        astronauts. We bring you the war on poverty, rats and junkies.   
      
        We show you how it feels to be old and alone. Or how it feels to   
        be a kid sharing your bed with four other kids.   
      
        We show you all this because we believe it is broadcasting's   
        responsibility to make people care; for only when they care do   
        they act.   
      
        Fifty years ago on KDKA, broadcasting started making the world a   
        smaller place. But as broadcasters we now face a much harder job:   
        helping it become a better place.   
      
   [Westinghouse Broadcasting Company. Advertisement. Broadcasting,   
   Nov. 2, 1970: p. 3.]   
      
   And so, with this post, Telecom Digest recognizes November 2020 as the   
   100th anniversary of the first words ever broadcast by radio, in   
   November 1920.   
      
   Neal McLain   
   Brazoria, Texas   
      
   ***** Moderator's Note *****   
      
   Neal and I have traded a few emails about this: sorry for the delay.   
      
   This story first appeared in the Society of Broadcast Engineers'   
   "Monthly ENews" for November, 2020. That publication has a copy of the   
   original ad that Neal mentioned.   
      
   It's at http://www.sbe24.org/News/MonthlyNews.html .   
      
   Bill Horne   
   Moderator   
      
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